“The San Diego Energy District (SDED) exists to speed the 100% Clean Electricity future. The quickest, most affordable means of doing so is through creation of Community Electricity Choice programs. The path is clear and proven.”

Lane Sharman

Lane is a mathematician and computer scientist by training with a degree from San Francisco State University combined with studies at the American University of Paris. His work and publications are in the areas of decarbonization, water management, energy storage, software and finance.

He founded the Borrego Water Exchange, the first independent exchange for the transfer of water rights as environmental mitigation credits, in use today in Borrego Springs.

He consults extensively on the design and implementation of Distributed Water and Power Resources. He has a Patent Pending for the production of Atmospheric Water at elevation creating energy from hydroelectricity during the delivery of the generated water. Other patents under development advance propulsion employing hybrid energy designs.

He actively works to distribute small-scale atmospheric water systems to homes, schools, hospitals, airports, parks and public spaces domestically and internationally. Water vapor is a potent, increasing greenhouse gas circulating everywhere as a result of increasing surface and ocean temperatures. It is superior to desalination leaving no toxic sludge as a by-product.

Mentoring is a big part of Lane’s work and he has mentored college and high-school students seeking to advance their lives in the areas of environmental science.

As an activist, he supports California as a leader in solving the Climate Crisis now imperiling nature and civilization. The San DIego Energy District Foundation was founded by Bill Powers and Lane Sharman to advance energy choice in San Diego and California. SDED and Sharman have been instrumental in the City of Solana Beach for community education and action. The Solana Beach program, Solana Energy Alliance, is now operational as of June 2018.

Sharman works throughout California. Transform Water and Power has proposed to California Department of Water Resources a novel way to remediate the Salton Sea. Instead of grabbing water from the Gulf of California, Transform proposed the construction of Bio-Islands on the surface of the Salton Sea. The islands contain atmospheric water generators, solar energy, and native plants combined harmoniously to restore one of the most toxic sites in the world.

Sharman instructs on community water and power development; advises on Floating Solar and Plasma Torch Tunnel Boring; and, in his spare time, he surfs and travels, especially in France.